gzip-1.6 released [stable]

From:

Jim Meyering

Subject:

gzip-1.6 released [stable]

Date:

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:01:43 +0200

This is to announce gzip-1.6, a stable release.
There have been 35 commits by 4 people in the 51 weeks since 1.5.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Eric Blake (1)
Jim Meyering (15)
Paul Eggert (18)
Rodrigo Campos (1)
Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers]
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Here is the GNU gzip home page:
http://gnu.org/s/gzip/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.6
or run this command from a git-cloned gzip directory:
git shortlog v1.5..v1.6
To summarize the 503 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned gzip directory:
git checkout v1.6
git submodule summary v1.5
Here are the compressed sources:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.6.tar.gz (1.1MB)
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.6.tar.xz (712KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.6.tar.gz.sighttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.6.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify gzip-1.6.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69.97-b1aba91
Automake 1.99a
Gnulib v0.0-7953-g9be0b54
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2013-06-09) [stable]
** New features
gzip now accepts the --keep (-k) option, for consistency with tools
like xz, lzip and bzip2. With this option, gzip no longer removes
named input files when compressing or decompressing.
** Bug fixes
gzip -d no longer malfunctions with certain invalid data in 'pack' format.
[bug introduced in gzip-0.8]
When overwriting, gzip no longer acts as if you typed "y" when you type "n",
on some platforms when compiled with optimization.
[bug introduced in gzip-1.3.6]
zgrep no longer malfunctions with a multi-digit context option like -15.
Now, it passes that option to grep (equivalent to -C15) just as it does
for single-digit options. [bug introduced in gzip-1.3.12]
zmore now acts more like 'more', and is more portable to POSIXish hosts.
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